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The goal of this site is mutual education on a fairly wide variety of topics having more (or less!) of an ecological connection. All knowledge levels are welcome here and I try to explain things at as basic of a level as I can.

The comment policy:Please stick to the topic and have something defensible (and useful) to say, or just don’t bother. This is NOT a site where you can just say anything you want or argue nonsense. There’s too much noise in the world, let’s please create some signal here. Also, first-time commenters’ comments get held in the queue for approval but after that are supposed to be auto-approved…but that thing often as not doesn’t work and sometimes it’s a few days before I get back to check.

My background: I have a Bachelor’s of Science in Wildlife Management from Ohio State, and a PhD in Plant Biology from the University of California at Davis. I’ve also got some background in molecular biology, genetics and dendroclimatology. But I’m primarily a forest ecologist. I should stick to these topics, but alas I tend to venture out where I shouldn’t. Nature of the beast; I like a lot of things, including especially music and song-writing.

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I think you would get better feedback if you leave comments open on your posts — I can’t see any reason to cut them off after just a month, as it takes awhile for people to find them — I happened to see a comment at the RC thread on Briffa 2013, which lead me to your site, all new to me.

As a suggestion, you may want to change the name of your blog from “Ecologically Orientated” to “Ecologically Oriented” since “orientated’ is not a word and detracts from your message. Thanks for your posts.